Abstract
In this issue of the European Heart Journal Supplements, my co-workers from the Third Faculty of Medicine (Charles University) and University Hospital Kralovske Vinohrady in Prague present the results of their recent research. With only one exception all these manuscripts present interdisciplinary research.
Our university and its hospital has long (>10 years) history of very close, open and friendly interdisciplinary cooperation in stroke research and stroke treatment. Cardiologists, neurologists, radiologists, neurosurgeons, vascular surgeons, internists, anaesthesiologists, and rehabilitation specialists work closely together to improve the previously grave outcomes of patients with severe ischaemic strokes.